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Things I've noticed happen in the general vicinity of my posts:
- Fundie nutjobs reduced to curling up in a little ball, plugging their ears, and spewing either contentless religious copypasta (Freeman) or barely-coherent amateur apologia (Bot).
- The Shitey Uzzard degenerating into mudslinging and pretending (badly) not to care when defeated in arguments...every single one of them.
- Insecure manchildren accusing me of being a transsexual (some random AC) on one hand, and on the other, an actual transwoman accusing me of being a TERF (Kurenai).
- Creeps like VLM, KHallow, JMorris, Entropy, and all their kind simply giving the hell up and abandoning ship when faced with a proper down-smacking for their fallacious sociopathy.
When you have people on the fringes everywhere angry with you, each of them accusing you of the precise opposite on the spectrum they hate, you must be doing something right. In all my time here, I've never gone in for trolling, deception, or shitposting. I've always stood for what's right, and took the fight to those who would try to spread their noetic poisons, fighting it everywhere it appears for the sake of anyone unfortunate enough to encounter it, knowing full well the originators of such poison are by their own choice irredeemable, certainly so in this lifetime.
And my approach drives them nuttier than squirrel vomit.
Well boo fucking hoo. When someone on here tells me I'm bitchy or angry, I just laugh, because what they really mean is "you're making me uncomfortable by exposing my bullshit in such direct, uncompromising, profanity-laced ways." It's pretty obvious the accusations of being a transsexual come from sheltered, misogynist little manchildren who can't handle actual women speaking the plain, unvarnished truth to them, because they have so little truck with the opposite sex they've never seen it in the real world before. No, this insult to their manly honor cannot stand! ONLY another man could POSSIBLY have the balls, literal balls, to stand up to them! (And of course the kind of person who'd make this argument lumps MtFs under the heading of "man." I don't, though I do draw an important distinction between transwomen and cisgender women because, frankly, they are never going to know what it is to have a period or risk being pregnant).
Time to put on your big-boy undies and join the adult world! The toughest people I know are all women, including my own mother and some of the nurses at work. I'm a marshmallow compared to them.
And I don't regret anything, as painful as it's been sometimes. Am I a "nice girl?" No, and haven't been for several years, and you know what? It's better this way. "Nice girls" get used and taken advantage of and thrown away and never have their needs met. "Nice girls" are the permanent victims of tone trolling by people too frightened or too weak to deal with them as the full human beings they are. In this place, at this time, as this site sinks further and further into RWNJ decay, all it means is I'll fight all the harder.
What I hope this does is encourage the people on here who still seek the light to defend it. Hit back. We're seeing on a number of scales, from the President's capitulation on his stupid bullshit shutdown right down to the examples at the head of this post, that the sociopaths are like any bully: weak, cowardly, amoral types who don't expect and can't handle sustained, principled pushback. Part of it is that evil simply can't comprehend good, but mostly it comes down to how bullies work and have always worked. Anyone who wants to join me in fighting the good fight, please do: we've seen that it works.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Sulla on Sunday January 27 2019, @07:58PM (1 child)
The thing I hate most in life is inefficiency. I have a problem with conservatives who hate programs but won't offer solutions. On one side you have the liberals who want more expansive programs to help people and (as conservatives see it) damn the fiscal costs, on the conservative side they are afraid that the ever increasing funding will break the bank (although hypocritically not when it applies to the military) and damn the current social costs. The point I make everyday as I work is that if we are actually efficient with our work we can cut spending and achieve more than we were able to do previously without needing to screw over workers. Its not difficult, you just need dedicated workers. I'm one of those people who chooses to fight it from the inside instead of just whine about it from the outside.
My first job with the state was a simple contract payment processor. My position had to be added because the other workers in the unit were so slow they were unable to meet the state's constitutional requirements for turnaround period. I was averaging 50 a day but the next highest average in the unit was around 20, with three barely managing 10 a day (same contracts, no difference in difficulty). They would whine endlessly about how they needed (and were granted) overtime so they could get their numbers to 11 or 12 a day. Being a government institution where you can't reprimand or fire someone you just have to wait them out, but for each slow person you have to maintain the rest of the operation can grind to a halt. Nonprofits who rely on that contract money to feed abused or beaten children go without funding and people don't eat. I managed to find enough efficiencies that the slow people could stay slow but still get more work done. I move on and the position did not have to be filled again by the unit so funding was able to be shifted elsewhere.
In the current world we live in the primary way we judge the success of a program is how much money is being spent. I went to a human services presentation by upper management several years ago and they had tons of metrics about how they are achieving more because their budget is higher, but didn't have any metrics on numbers of kids helped, how less kids are being helped every year because incidents are lower, etc. I exist to show that the amount of money you spend is not linked to the quality of the service you provide. There is going to be a limit but its necessary to actually find that limit. A increase in budget of the cost of living and stuff like that makes some sense, but there is no logic in 10-12% increases per year with the only changes being additional money wasted in overhead.
Anyways. I'm done with this thread, I'm sure we will cross paths somewhere else. Because that is what soylent is, endless circles of people disagreeing and never coming to any resolution, and we pretend its tech related.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @07:07AM
The ever present problem of power and corruption. I've heard the complaints from conservatives, I've heard and seen such stories. Inefficiency sucks, lazy bastards sitting around while others do the work SUCKS.
However, that is a human problem. There will always be such people. All we can do is try our best, and try and put good people into management. When your anger over inefficiency becomes a political platform you end up crusading against innocent people because a spreadsheet can't handle human existence.
We need transparency in government so we can find the sources of corruption and wasted resources, but we also need a supportive humane approach.
A massive part of the problem is our economic system. It has grown and adapted over the years, but the fundamental idea remains that a limited AND infinite resource has massive control over our lives. Money is a human construct and is manipulated in order to control humans. I'm not sure how we can grow beyond it, but if we're talking politics then
Between liberals and conservatives there is WAY more common ground than people are used to. Race is THE dividing issue. Gender is next. Then comes all the bullshit we usually argue about.
Liberals need conservatives to keep them safe, conservatives need liberals to find better futures. We will get there together, and contrary to popular media we are actually slowly getting there, but the propaganda is constantly trying to keep people divided by pushing bullshit that sounds so very exciting. We would have plenty of time to yell at each other over the internet if it wasn't for madmen ACTUALLY FUCKING CONTEMPLATING nuclear annihilation over economic and political systems.
The plebeians are being manipulated by the patricians, age old game taken to STUPID fucking levels. We are at the point where millions of people are believing lies and turning their best allies into enemies, and sadly this is occurring on both sides. Trump was right about one thing, there are fine people on both sides. I prefer to believe it was his dementia talking and he didn't realize he was talking about Charlottesville. Woops, I think I'm beginning to understand how people go mad!